[Development] Dropping QSound?

[Markus Goetz]

On 24.11.11 13:32, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> On Thursday 24 November 2011 13:19:38 Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> On Thursday, November 24, 2011 12:23:34 Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>> An idea to consider.
>>>
>>> I don't think *anyone* uses QSound these days.
>> Do you mean removing or putting in some qt4support library?
> Note that the backend do not exist anymore with lighthouse, so one would need
> to add code into each lighthouse plugin to handle QSound
>
> So sure, this is a huge source incompatible change for the users of QSound
> (which are probably more than what we think, it is i guess used a lot in
> applications to just pop a notification sound)
> But i think it would be a lot of work not to remove it.
>

A quick search on github proves Olivier's point.

What about instead of dropping it create an API-shim that uses 
QMultimedia(KitOrWhatever) ?

bye,
Markus